KCT goes about switching out the High Iron Travel “Southwest Explorer” rare mileage special that has just arrived KC Union Station from Pratt, KS via the UP. Cars will be wyed to be facing the right direction for their departures on the Amtrak Southwest Chief Trains 3 and 4 over the next couple days. The special operated as Amtrak Train #964 today.

BNSF Cement City Local is stopped on the KCT Argentine Connection waiting for KCT Traffic Control to get them a signal to head east as a KCT Yard Job wyes the “Caritas” and the “Sky View” at BNSF Crossing.

Headed down the hill at Hamblen Road on the UP Sedalia Sub. is the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Phase III Heritage Locomotive on the point of the Missouri River Runner. The unit spent the past week leading a High Iron Travel rare mileage special, the “Southwest Explorer”, which ran from St. Louis to Kansas City via New Mexico.

Art deco engineering at its finest on display as Milwaukee Road Skytop Lounge “Cedar Rapids”, which was set out by Amtrak Train #3 last night in KC. This car is operated by the Friends of 261, the owners of Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #261, based in Minneapolis, MN.

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5/5/2012 Upload Date: 5/7/2012 11:38:00 PM

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Kansas City, MO

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Zach Pumphery

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Title:

PPCX 800040 – Lounge Car “Cedar Rapids”

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Art deco engineering at its finest on display as Milwaukee Road Skytop Lounge “Cedar Rapids”, which was set out by Amtrak Train #3 last night in KC. This car is operated by the Friends of 261, the owners of Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #261, based in Minneapolis, MN.

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5/5/2012 Upload Date: 5/7/2012 11:38:02 PM

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Kansas City, MO

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Southbound UP Loaded Coal Train

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A patched SP Leads UP Train CEYKH1 03 down the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. at CP Bravo still protected by Ex-Frisco Searchlight Signals.

Nearing 119th Street on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. is UP Train CEYKH1 03 with a patched SP AC4400CW on the point, a relatively rare occurrence in KC, since these Ex-SPs aren't equipped with cab signals, which is a common form of main track authority west of here on the Kansas and Hiawatha Subs.

Bearing down on Newman is UP 844 and the E9s on UP Train STPCB 08, headed for Kansas City where it will turn north, and eventually Omaha-Council Bluffs later this evening. Engineer Ed Dickens has her pretty hooked up at this point, and they're doing at least 65 MPH.

After meeting a westbound empty, an ACe leads 134 loads of coal out of Armour past the CB&Q Searchlights, which were installed on a new mast following the November 2010 rear end collision and derailment that occurred here.

UP 844 and the E9s slow for a brief stop at the Sante Fe Depot in Atchison with UP Train STPCB 08 on the UP Falls City Sub. en route to Omaha-Council Bluffs. Picture taking location? The cupola roof of an ATSF Caboose.

An Ex-Santa Fe SD40-2 and an Ex-Burlington Northern GP50 lead a transfer from NS Voltz Yard to BNSF Argentine Yard in KCK with a long string of autoracks. I try to work those code lines into the shot here whenever I can. You never know when they might disappear.